Ascension To Alchemist: I

I woke up one morning
        & I knew
I was thunder & lightning.
My blood was the ghosts
    of every rattlesnake ever lived.
My eyes flashed a vicious clarity
     & knew the meaning of every dance.
I walked to the farthest waterfall
      & washed the dust of civilization
                               away.
Scraped my back against the sky
       shed the skin of mankind,
Threw my bones in the river one by one
        & invisible,
         I stole the secrets of the gods.

  I laughed,
                  & they ran for the hills.